Put a Name to the 80 People Who Own Half of the World’s Wealth

Photo by PhotoAtelier (CC BY 2.0) Some of the names on this list of the über rich will seem familiar while others may come as a surprise. What probably isn’t unexpected is the fact that 35 of the world’s 1 percent are American, and that, of the entire group, 50 are “self-made,” whatever that means these days. To read the whole list, click here. FiveThirtyEight: Eighty people hold the same amount of wealth as the world’s 3.6 billion poorest people, according to an analysis just released from Oxfam.



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